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Dawn Bertot
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Message 194 of 517 (462092)
03-30-2008 2:10 PM
Reply to: Message 193 by Grizz
03-29-2008 3:31 PM


Grizz, I will get to this as soon as I can, I am very busy presently.
D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 197 of 517 (462106)
03-31-2008 1:29 AM
Reply to: Message 195 by iano
03-30-2008 7:25 PM


iano writes
The section starting at 1:18 happens to be entitled "God's Wrath Against Mankind" in the NIV version.
quote:
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Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness..
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The "come to buddy Jesus" gospel wouldn't have been the one preached then. The good news was good news in the light of the bad news.
And like all faithful and uninformed Humanists iano, will not be happy until God or the gods do things exacally how he thinks they should be done or some other human with another very different opinion. Tell me iano, excally which human being or group of human beings should God design his plans around. There are so many well-intentioned people out there. Humanists say "man is the measure of all things"., but the question is "What man"?. Hitler, Stalin, Plato? Whos philosophy should we adopt?
And like all poor expositors, iano fails to see the glaring part of the verse he quotes which says, "who SUPRESS the truth in wickedness and godlessness"., iano wishes that God would just leave us alone to perform any amount of perversness that we choose. But why would you expect any less from a staunch Humanist. He sees the principle of Free Will in his every day walk of life when dealing with local authorities and understands that his freedom does not imply he can do anything he want without consequences. But when he comes to God, he demands that God do it his way.
Your whole post amounts to nothing but crying and complaining, get off the POT as you call it and atleast try and make a valid Damn argument.
D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 199 of 517 (462119)
03-31-2008 9:07 AM
Reply to: Message 195 by iano
03-30-2008 7:25 PM


Sorry, iano, it appeared that everything was counterfactual to the Christian premise, ie:
IF God of wrath message THEN give me the gods any day.
IF God of grace message THEN why Islam?
Christian premise., ie:
It seemed a bit ambiguous, again sorry.
D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 202 of 517 (462173)
04-01-2008 1:48 AM
Reply to: Message 201 by Grizz
03-31-2008 7:30 PM


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Regardless of how they went about proselytizing, the message was obviously appealing enough to get people to stick around to listen to the whole story. My opinion as sated is, the Christian community not only offered the pagan and gentile a revolutionary way of thinking about the Divine, but also a sense of purpose, meaning, and civility, all packaged up with an offer of eternal paradise that would be bestowed upon believers when Jesus soon returned to rescue his followers from this world.
Your views certainly show a certain insight to the events of those days. I think if we combine, these with the comments of iano, we, kind of get an overall picture, or atleast a close one. I however, I would be more interested in your own personal beliefs about all of these things, are they to be believed as real, historical Jesus, reliability of the NT and the stories that are contained in them. to bring us closer to the original design of this thread by Jon.
thanks
D Bertot.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 206 of 517 (462305)
04-02-2008 10:37 AM
Reply to: Message 204 by Grizz
04-01-2008 6:06 PM


Regarding my personal opinions on the other questions you posed? Those would be great topics for new threads. It would be better for us all if we spent a bit of time outlining how our opinions were formed on specific questions rather than lumping them together here as bundled statements. I advise this approach simply to avoid the usual static that will turn this thread into a WWF Smack-Down. Any simple answer offered up will inevitably result in members attacking the conclusion rather than the methods or reasons used to arrive at them.
I agree completely, I have admonished others to do this in other posts and threads. Autunman, seems very accomadating in this area, which helps us to proceed in a logical and professional manner. It really moves the discussion along. I dont understand much of what he says after that, due to the fact that he is a egghead and I have to read everything he says, 12 or 15 times, Ha, Ha.
D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 209 of 517 (462429)
04-03-2008 9:38 AM
Reply to: Message 207 by iano
04-02-2008 7:13 PM


iano, I think it might be of great value to hear yours, Autunmans and Jaywills perspective (a brief exposition) on the original topic of, is there anything in history that would point to the divinity of Jesus. I would like to hear you fellas perspectives. Yous and these others insights are always interesting . Just a simple explanation from yalls perspective. If not thats fine too. I think Grizz has already set his out aleast indirectly. What do you think?
D Bertot

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